Biggest thing to ever come out of my little group. Pls help spread this finding! We found clean, CAUSAL evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases. So, could a virus cause Alzheimer’s->YES! Hear me out & see preprint: bit.ly/3MVqXU9 🧵1/

Check out this 1936 photo showing the AM rush at Lake Shore Drive and Michigan Ave. Drivers seem to believe there was a time in the past where traffic wasn't bad. It's a myth. Traffic has always been bad. And it *will always* be bad, because cars are spatially inefficient.

Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system: The Tetanus vaccine The Measles vaccine The Polio vaccine The Mumps vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine - Jon Hislop, MD, PhD

8/Zoey’s parents are fortunate to have connections and flexibility to take time away from work to fight these road blocks. Imagine being too sick to advocate for yourself, or non english speaking, or unable to afford taking hours off work to wait on the phone.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Tessa Cox Danielle Murray Audrey Wenski, PharmD, BCCCP Joanna He, PharmD, BCPS Katie Qualls #TwitteRx (or whatever the freaking hashtag is now)

CPRS apologists: The only EMR optimized for patient care, not billing! (Cf. Epic) CPRS reality: Slow, clunky UI, 10 separate web apps to accomplish a day's work, shared drive with Excel files for drug dosing

introducing the IBPH (internet book of hospital pulm) expansion to the IBCC section on pulm, with a goal of covering inpatient pulmonology more thoroughly🫁 please help support the project by sharing & peer-reviewing the new chapters (coming soon)🐦 emcrit.org/pulmcrit/ibhp/

🙋‍♂️ INCREDIBLE ICU MOBILITY in intubated patient on ventilator & CRRT 👉This should be the standard of care in all ICU’s and hospitals worldwide 🌎 ❓Does your ICU walk and mobilize intubated patients? H/T Early physiotherapy ICU #ICUrehab #FOAMcc #PhysicalTherapy #MedEd #MedTwitter

Bike trips in the USA rose 37% from 2019 to 2022. link.axios.com/click/33001574…

Out today! Dr. Matthew Weaver and colleagues found that #PublicOpinion supports limiting #ResidentPhysician #WorkHours, namely, limiting work weeks to 60 hours, which is in sharp contrast to current regulations that permit 80 hours work weeks. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Why are inhalers so ridiculously expensive?

In some ways this is analogous to critical care. Maintaining a tenuous grasp on a patient who seems to be sleeping away because sometimes they defy expectations and make it through with some scars to show for it.

THIS is what the ABCDEF bundle looks like in action. This is what it means to patients and survivors. This survivor said that the following helped him walk out of the ICU: 1/

How ridiculous is it that in medicine we call a normal two-day weekend a “Golden Weekend”? #MedTwitter

Flavored lidocaine is available for dental procedures. Why not for topical anesthesia before a bronch?

If I were going to advertise my newly updated B-line counting ultrasound, I would probably show at least one (1) B-line

Can't wait to see what comes of this. Seems to be another huge step forward for accelerating biomedical research.

Incredible tribute to phospholipids

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning: "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…

I know a lot of people dream of retiring to the countryside, but I think proximity to healthcare is a pretty important QoL factor unless road trips for doctor's visits sound like fun